I am a Ph.D candidate in MIT’s Department of Political Science and Security Studies Program. My research interests are in civil war, international security, and ethnic politics. My dissertation studies organizational cohesion and fragmentation in armed political groups. Other projects, at varying levels of completion, examine civil-military relations, insurgency and counterinsurgency, transnational dimensions of civil wars, and the politics of multi-ethnic militaries.
I’m affiliated with the MIT working groups on Identity Politics and Insurgency and Irregular Warfare, and the Public Opinion Research Training Laboratory. During the spring of 2007 I was the teaching assistant for Flynt Leverett’s course “The Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Global Energy.” I have spent time at the RAND Corporation and in the offices of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and US Senator Arlen Specter. I received my BA in political science from the University of Chicago in 2004.
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